Celebrity Voice Actor: Rapunzel has the most famous voice actress of all the princesses - pop star Mandy Moore. Mulan's actress Ming Na-Wen has retroactively become more famous through her high profile role in Agents Of Shield. Tiana is also voiced by Tony winner Anika Noni Rose. Merida is voiced by noted Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald.

Despite Tiana merchandise flying off the shelves, The Princess and the Frog was a (relative) failure for Disney, which caused them completely change their marketing strategy for Tangled. Their reasoning: the movies only appeal to little girls. Despite Rapunzel being an official Disney Princess, this was completely downplayed and her movie was made out to be a Shrek-like 3D animation romp. Since then, Tangled has done great at the box office, and Disney has said that they will not stop doing fairy tale movies.

Exiled from Continuity: While the official roster includes two characters who are not princesses and other non-princesses have appeared from time to time, there are several actual princesses from the Disney Animated Canon who have been omitted. The roster has always tended to skew towards more popular works, which is usually taken to be the main reason Eilonwy and Kida have never been included, although the Darker and Edgier aspects of those two films may also be part of the reason. Non-human princesses such as Faline, Nala, and Kiara are also left out, likely because they don't wear glamorous clothes or jewelry, and consequently can't be dressed up like the human princesses (though it may also be because like most writers, most audience members are human). In other cases, the nature of the source material is the most likely factor: Vanellope von Schweetz is never included, probably in part because her status as a princess is a spoiler,note and because she relinquishes her title and abolishes the monarchy in Sugar Rush almost immediately after The Reveal but likely also due to her film being aimed at an older audience and her character not fitting thePrincess Classic model at all. Another special case is Giselle, who can't be used because Disney would have to pay Amy Adams royalties to use her image on their products (presumably similar reasons are why Mia Thermopolis is also absent).

Follow the Leader: Barbie, in terms of the toys. Mattel is behind both doll franchises. Another Mattel property, Ever After High, also calls back to fairy tales and has many characters based on the princesses whose stories are covered in this line. (In fact, in EAH, princesses are a privileged social class, which seems to be inspired by the success of the Disney Princess line.)

The Merch: The very premise is to give girls official items for the princesses, when they weren't available before.

Newer Than They Think: Despite the fact that Disney has been making movies featuring princesses since 1937, and featuring the princesses on The Merch for their movies for years, the Disney Princess franchise itself was only introduced in 2000; that makes it younger than other Disney franchises such as Baby Einstein and Toy Story.

Original Character: Technically Merida is this to the franchise, since she is the only heroine not based on a pre-existing source.

At least six new shorts were prepared for a direct-to-DVD series called Disney Princess Enchanted Tales, but the ban on Direct-to-Video Disney sequels killed the line after the first volume. As a result, only one Aurora short and one Jasmine short became available, and the ones for Belle, Mulan and Cinderella (as well as a second one for Aurora) might never see light of day. The original DVD of Cinderella III: A Twist in Time contained a preview and a trailer for the unreleased Aurora tale, that show just enough clips for fans to piece together the storyline.

A Spear Counterpart called Disney Heroes was planned to focus on many of the male protagonists (as well as other heroic characters like Robin Hood and Peter Pan) but fell through when the few action figures released sold poorly.

Singing to Herself: Lea Salonga as the singing voices of Jasmine and Mulan. Oddly enough Salonga is replaced by Liz Callaway for the two Aladdin sequels before returning to sing for Jasmine and Mulan in The Merch.

Swan Lake, Bluebeard, Rumpelstiltskin, Aida, and The Love For Three Oranges were each going to be made into a film at some point by Disney (although the first was eventually made into a non-Disney animated film, The Swan Princess). Maybe their heroines would have been in this franchise. Not to mention Aida got a Disney-supported stage musical.

Giselle from Enchanted was going to be given Disney Princess status as well, but Disney abandoned the idea when they realized they would have to secure life-long rights to the image of Amy Adams, Giselle's actress.

There have been occasional instances of heroines being shown in official merchandise. This includes Alice, Esmerelda, Megara, and Jane. Tinker Bell was also to be included, but she eventually got her own franchise, the Disney Fairies.

Anna and Elsa were slated to join the line-up, but were dropped for multiple reasons:

For one thing, Elsa is a queen (same reason why Kida is absent from thisnote She became queen in the end of her film and not helped the fact the film she appeared was one of the Box Office Bombs that Disney had during their post-Renaissance Eisner era Dork Age).

The profitable nature of the Frozen franchise means it would be redundant to include either or both.

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